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Mark Moyar
Dr. Mark Moyar, formerly an FPRI Senior Fellow, currently serves at the U.S. Agency for International Development. From 2004 to 2010, he served previously as a professor at the U.S. Marine Corps University, where he held the Kim T. Adamson Chair of Insurgency and Terrorism. He holds a B.A. summa cum laude from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Cambridge. Dr. Moyar has written numerous books and monographs on U.S. national security, including Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq (Yale University Press, 2009). His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. Cambridge University Press will publish his book on building partner capacity in the fall of 2015.
Books
Articles
- Calculating Warfare on a Spectrum of Variables - Orbis - April, 2023
- Ken Burns’s ‘Vietnam’ Is Fair to the Troops, but Not the Cause - The Washington Post - October, 2017
- Was Vietnam Winnable? - The New York Times - May, 2017
- America’s Dangerous Love for Special Ops - The New York Times - May, 2017
- USAID Should Further U.S. Interests, Not ‘Safe Spaces’ - The Wall Street Journal - April, 2017
- Two Suns Rising in the East - The Wall Street Journal - May, 2016
- Billions Wasted in Foreign Aid—but at Least It’s Not Elitist - Wall Street Journal - March, 2016
- Grand Strategy after the Vietnam War - Orbis - October, 2009
In the news
- Senior Fellow Mark Moyar Quoted by War On The Rocks - Scholars in the News -
- Senior Fellow Mark Moyar Quoted by Foreign Policy on Ken Burns’ Vietnam Doc - Scholars in the News -
- Senior Fellow Mark Moyar’s Book Reviewed by Los Angeles Review of Books - Scholars in the News -
- Senior Fellow Mark Moyar’s Latest Book Reviewed by the American Spectator - Scholars in the News -
- FPRI’s Mark Moyar Reviews Dominic Tierney’s New Book: The Right Way to Lose a War - Scholars in the News -